There is growing alarm in China that official efforts to contain an outbreak of Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne disease spreading in the south of the country, are infringing on people’s rights.
In Zhanjiang, a port city in Guangdong province, a single mother posted a video this week showing a group of people – including a uniformed police officer – entering her children’s bedroom in the middle of the night and taking blood samples from her son and daughter without her consent or presence.